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What A Bizarre Day!
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RE: What A Bizarre Day!
(April 27, 2012 at 12:59 pm)jess_essential Wrote: When I attempted to understand christianity, I was 17 years old and living with a friend of mine who's family visited church quite often. I HAD to go with them if I wanted to stay there, and being I had nowhere else to go, I stayed, and went with. I spent abouttttt six months trying so desperately to FEEL something, ANYTHING that the other people there felt! I felt inadequete when people would start sweating and fall to the ground crying because THE HOLY SPIRIT ENTERED THEIR BODY! I was jealous. I wanted to feel that too! Until I stepped back into reality, and found out what religion and the god concept meant to me PERSONALLY. I realized that I didnt feel anything, because there wasnt anything TO feel. I didnt fall on the ground, because I wasnt about to have a seizure. I didnt walk around professing of the holy spirit, because I didnt think it ever existed! God is like meth, people try to sell it to you on the streets, promising it will make everything better, but after you take your first hit and the shakes start to set in, you realize how much better off you were without it in the first place. I'm a fan of logic, and what doesnt make sense, just doesnt make sense. And it is not going to start making sense all of the sudden either. Things rarely operate like that. Just my opinion.

Yeah I would often wonder why people would get revelations from God during worship and not me. Especially the daughters of the Pastor.. They would tell you endless stories of the conversations they've had with God. I just didn't understand why he seemed to be absent in my life.

I got around this by thinking of God as a practical God where you were supposed to live out his Will and then things will just fall into place. They kind of did but I think because like-minded people will produce like-minded results. Of course if I and other fellows Christians did the same thing (God's will) then we will see things happen.. Like any other group of people.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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#12
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I just wanted it because it made the people I knew feel a sense of something nice, and I had never felt nice, so I tried for it. Until I fully realized that nothing belongs higher than myself, and studied the scientific method. Smile
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.” - Max Stirner.
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#13
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Quote:I'd like to think that the main collection of people subscribing to some type of organized religion are just uninformed.


My favorite quote on the subject.


Quote:If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows
of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an
imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon
weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything
about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based.

--Brig. Gen Albert Pike, C.S.A.

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#14
RE: What A Bizarre Day!
(April 27, 2012 at 1:12 pm)jess_essential Wrote: I just wanted it because it made the people I knew feel a sense of something nice, and I had never felt nice, so I tried for it. Until I fully realized that nothing belongs higher than myself, and studied the scientific method. Smile

Science is always a good way to go. Especially once you've worked your butt off at university and you have a piece of paper to show for it. Money gets chucked at you from there onwards haha.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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#15
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I am a big fan of proven fact. I've no interest in ficticious historical events. >.< Science is definitely the way to go, because although people attempt to do so, there really is no logical reasoning/ argument against it. God is santa for grown ups, end of story. (I only capitalized it because it was at the beginning of a sentence.) Lol.
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.” - Max Stirner.
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#16
RE: What A Bizarre Day!
(April 27, 2012 at 1:27 pm)jess_essential Wrote: I am a big fan of proven fact. I've no interest in ficticious historical events. >.< Science is definitely the way to go, because although people attempt to do so, there really is no logical reasoning/ argument against it. God is santa for grown ups, end of story. (I only capitalized it because it was at the beginning of a sentence.) Lol.

You're a wise one indeed. A prophet possibly?!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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#17
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Just a little realist in the middle of nowhere. Smile
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.” - Max Stirner.
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#18
RE: What A Bizarre Day!
(April 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm)jess_essential Wrote: Just a little realist in the middle of nowhere. Smile

And I'm a free thinker ready for bed! Nearly 2am here.. Better hit the haysack =)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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#19
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Quote:And I'm a free thinker ready for bed! Nearly 2am here.. Better hit the haysack =)


The sun never sets on the divine Tiberius' empire!
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#20
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I'm impressed, Min, you're the first person I've ever known use that reference in its proper context! It's not something that comes up often, admittedly. However when it does it's usually taken to mean the British Empire would last forever, so it's ironic that the sun finally did set on it; instead of the correct sense that you used, a global Empire such that it's always daytime somewhere in it. It's shameful but not many people over here would know that.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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